"I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be."

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Source : "Cry Freedom: Richard Attenborough makes a Mandela of Steve Biko" by Alex von Tunzelmann, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2010.

Steven Biko

#Jail Quotes #Want Quotes #Beats Quotes

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source : John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books
“One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA
“A chess tournament disguised as a circus.”

Source : 1964 Of US political conventions. In the National Observer. Quoted in Edwin A Roberts Jr Elections 1964 (1964).
“I move, therefore I am.”
“The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.”
“As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.84
“I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.”

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